Rivi and Intro to Plank - the project continues

The retraining of Rivi progresses. With the intro to the plank, our biggest thing to over come here is for Rivi not to think about stopping at the end of the plank. We have been through a real learning curve this week.



This retraining is about complex levels of interpretation, stringing behaviours together and encouraging Rivi to have belief in offering new behaviours that are in conflict with 3 years of previous training. It reminds me very much of the crossover stage when the use of clickers became available to reward mark. I’m trying to achieve something and not sure what the end product will be.  I have to think about my judgement calls in terms of  - how to progress, what to reward and jackpot. In the great scheme of things it is very early days. However, we will continue the project...